PIROI and its partner National Societies together manage 11 emergency warehouses in the south-west Indian Ocean, ensuring the priority needs of 45,000 people can be met in the event of a disaster. Such warehouse management requires highly accurate region-wide...
Following the damage caused by the heavy rains last April in the Union of the Comoros, the emergency response teams of the Comorian Red Crescent (CRCo) provided material and financial assistance to 89 affected families with the support of PIROI. Last April, the...
Last April, PIROI/French Red Cross emergency response team member Céline White was deployed to Madagascar to help with the emergency operation being carried out there by Malagasy Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies....
In a context marked by ever-increasing humanitarian, climatic and health challenges, PIROI has set itself an ambitious target: that of reducing the impact of natural hazard-related disasters, health crises, and climate change for south-west Indian Ocean communities....
Intense Tropical Cyclone Gombe hit Mozambique’s Nampula Province on 11 March 2022, causing considerable human and material damage. In response to the humanitarian need, PIROI – the French Red Cross’s Indian Ocean Regional Intervention Platform – has joined forces with...
Mount Nyiragongo, located near the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), started erupting on 22 May 2021 at 7pm local time. Two lava flows emerged from the volcano, one heading east towards Rwanda, and the other heading towards Goma,...
